Shell-crossing singularities in Szekeres quasispherical models
Subenoy Chakraborty1 and Ujjal Debnath2
(1) Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Calcutta-32, India
(2) Department of Mathematics, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah-711 103, India
Abstract
We investigate the occurrence of shell-crossing singularities in Szekeres quasispherical dust models with or without a cosmological constant. We study the conditions for a shell-crossing singularity from both physical and geometric poinst of view, and they are in agreement.
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